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Awards for Excellence 2007
Ken Lewis interview: Bank of America’s next step forward
John Mack interview: Morgan Stanley’s reversal of fortunes
Awards for Excellence 2007: Best M&A House
Awards for Excellence 2007 Off the record special
How Itaú became the best of the best
Debt news
Covered bonds: Borrowers chafe at rating agencies’ demands
Covered bonds: Third time lucky for Italy
Hybrids: Great West breaches Canada’s corporate frontier
Credit derivatives: Q-WIXX ready for takeoff
Hybrids: ANZ cuts non-innovative premium
Debt round up: Deutsche boosts credit trading...
Debt round up: ...and establishes solutions group
Debt round up: Crunch time?
Structured finance news & analysis
Synthetic CDOs: Managers bet on long/short CDOs to deliver
Real estate: CRE CDOs get bogged down in Europe
Investment banking: BBVA establishes a structured credit business
CMBS: UBS raids Credit Suisse for CMBS franchise
Credit indices: The long and short of European CMBS
SF market round up: Cumming to America
Foreign exchange news
Trading platforms: The beginning of the end for the ECN?
Indices: Indices tapping into growing demand for FX
Poland: Market unfazed by ‘surprise’ Polish rate increase
Structured finance: Merrill reports strong demand for its CFXO
FX round up: Icap loses senior EBS staff
FX round up: Lichten leaves JPM
FX round up: FSA green lights CME
FX round up: HVB build-up continues
Equity markets news
Equity derivatives: Penny pricing helps boost US equity options trading
Equities trading: Bidding for programme trades
Exchange competition: The empire strikes back
Equity round up: The month in numbers
Equity round up: Standard & Poor’s launches new Asian Islamic index
Alternative investment news & analysis
Hedge funds: Funds turn to commodities
Regulation: Hong Kong streamlines hedge fund licensing
Private equity: Private equity investors look to Africa
Prime brokerage: Deutsche Bank sets up hedge fund consultancy
AI profile: M2M navigates volatile market with shipping fund
AI round up: Minorities only, please!
AI round up: FoHFs bigger investors in HFs than are HNWIs
AI round up: Alternative investment of the month
Latin America news
Argentina settles majority of claims filed with Icsid
Capital markets: CVRD issues landmark convertible
Brazilian NPL portfolios – fly or flop?
Risk management: Facility speeds Caribbean relief
LA round up: Hugo Chávez watch
LA round up: Bradesco’s $500 million securitization
LA round up: People moves
EEMEA news
Japanese investors develop an appetite for Russian risk
Banking M&A: UniCredit takes majority stake in ATF Bank
Turkey: ING joins Turkish banking fray
Local capital markets: Telefónica goes Czech
Islamic finance: Takaful posed for takeoff
Iran: Bank Melli launches First Persian Equity Fund
EEMEA round up: Islamic finance: new S&P index
EEMEA round up: Icelandic bank buys Wood & Co
Market leaders
What value an investment-grade rating?
Rating transitions start to bite
Hedge funds to the rescue!
Kuwait might set trend by abandoning currency peg
Rediscovering the value of conventional debt business
Pan-asset-class volatility: Where did all the vol go?
Sovereign wealth funds: The $2 trillion investor
